May 23, 2006

“To Establish A Bridge Trough Arts”

Title: “Art-Bridge”
Action 5 Seminar
Dates: 20-26 November 2006
Venue: Kayseri /TURKEY
Participants: Partners from Youth Programme Countries (2 participants from each partner)
%70 of travel costs, full accomdation, %100 of insurance and visa cost.
Number of participants: 30 (2 person for each organization)
Activity date: 20.11.2006-26.11.2006 (arrival date 20.11.2006,
Departure date: 26.11.2006)
Place of the Project: Kayseri/TURKEY
Deadline: 27.05.2006



TITLE: “To Establish A Bridge Trough Arts”

“Multilateral Youth Exchange”

Preparation Visit: 18-19 September 2006
Dates: 16-24 October 2006
Groups: 4+1 leader
Participants: Partners from Youth Programme Countries
%70 of travel costs, full accommodation, %100 of insurance and visa
cost
Venue: Kayseri/TURKEY
Deadline : 27.05.2006


Under the Leonardo Da Vinci Program, the Youth Program Action 3, the Turkish National Agency given a budget and finished the project. And we want to extent to project scope. We will organize a Seminar about Turkish Traditional Arts and practicing arts activities (Turkish Traditional Music, Turkish Traditional Arts Marbling, workshop, cultural activities...)

Project:
Under the Visual Art Education Association (VAEA), the Youth group has prepared a project in which to establish a link between arts and the European process. VAEA support our project, this is VAEA’s the second project in which they are planning art and art education activities through Turkish traditional Arts. These activities are financially supported by the Youth program last term; especially social-economical, geography and cultural activities. Our projects first partner (action 3) was European Culture Center in Italy and activities organized with this group.

Now, this new project presents the youth progress and the established an active multi-cultural Europe. The purpose of this project is to establish a connection between Turkish Culture and European Culture. We will apply to extent new activities in action 5.

The aim of this project is to ensure that youth take responsibility for their own culture and respect other cultures. By having youth groups be active in creative activities of their own culture, they will prove to be productive. This perspective will provide a natural understanding between different cultures.

The purpose of our project to make different cultures aware of traditional Turkish Traditional Arts. Collective activities and individual development in the whole European culture through arts and create a balance between culture and arts. Listed below are our specific aims of this project.

· To encourage our youth to facilitate and initiate activities that lead to integration.

· To ensure art and cultural activities through information, skills and to obtain sufficient skills to help and provide guidance to those who lack experience.

· To give our youth the opportunity to express themselves and to enable them to provide support and cooperation to other youth

· To abandon foreign enemies and racism.

· To provide a variety of European cultures, heritage and to establish a variety of basic understandings.

· To get rid of social-culture and geographical differences in European Youth.

The project is supporting 30 youth. The project participants are between the ages of 18 and 25; student of the Faculty of Fine Arts(department of music or visual arts) or interested in arts. Three faculty staff will also participate in the project.

We are planning an informational meeting in Kayseri to discuss the Turkish Traditional Arts. We will be visiting different locations in Kayseri and Kopadokia for six days. On the first day, we are planning to tour the museums and the cities; on the second day we will be presenting a workshop on Turkish traditional arts and on the following days there will be marbling practice and a Turkish music concert.

Project coordinator: Aygül Aykut
aaykut@erciyes.edu.tr
www.gorsed.org

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